The Bloomer Legacy: 1.7 A Ghastly Encounter

Ruby: “Your parents are responsible for my death. If it wasn’t for them I would still be alive, and my boy would not be an orphan.”

Isaac gasped: “You have a son?”

Ruby looked away, the pain palpable in her face. “I do… I did. His name is Allen. He was about your age when I died.”

“Where is he now?” Isaac asked.

“I have no idea. We had no other family, I was a single mom. He probably went to an orphanage of sorts. And I’m stuck here so I can’t even check on him and…” Ruby buried her face in her hands.

Isaac: “I can’t believe my parents have done this to you! I’ll never speak to them again! Or I will, and make sure they pay for what they did!”

Ruby: “What have I done?”

Isaac was quiet on the way home, but Kirk noticed his determination. Something was troubling his little boy, but he had no idea what it could be. Did he meet some mean kids at the playground? He tried to address the problem but Isaac just rushed off to the house.

“You two are late today,” Maranda grunted. “You’re normally home and in bed by the time I get back from work.”

“Sorry honey, I got carried away.” Kirk gave Maranda a quick peck on the cheek.

Isaac glared at his parents with contempt. “I know what you did,” he said quietly.

Maranda looked at him, puzzled: “What are you talking about Isaac?”

“You killed Ruby Perrin,” Isaac burst into angry tears. “You said she was your friend, but you killed her!”

There was a moment of silence.

“Isaac, who did you talk to?” Maranda looked at her son as her eyes started to water.

“So it’s true!” The boy exclaimed.

“Isaac…” Maranda pleaded with her son, but for once she didn’t quite know what to say.

“This has to stop!” Kirk stood up. He spoke calmly, but firmly. “We didn’t kill Ruby. And she was our friend.”

For the first time since it happened, Kirk recounted the events of that awful night. He got a bit carried away with all of the emotions he’s been surpressing for years, but he told the full story as well as he could remember.

Kirk: “Can you see what happened son?”

Isaac: “I…I think so.”

Maranda let out a sigh of relief.

“Why don’t we put you to bed darling,” Maranda cuddled her boy. “It’s been a long day, and you really ought to be asleep by now or you won’t be up for school tomorrow!”

They tucked Isaac in for bedtime and returned to the living room. Maranda burst out crying.

“It’s going to be ok,” Kirk kissed her forehead, wishing he could kiss the pain away. “He’s got a good head on his shoulders. He’s going to be fine. We’ll be fine.”

Meanwhile, Isaac was tossing and turning in his bed. He was so confused and didn’t know what to believe. In any case, he did not sleep easy that night, nightmare coming after nightmare, and waking up countless times covered in sweat.

Usually outgoing and bubbly, Isaac started to spend a lot of time at his monkey bars, just sitting there quietly. Maranda and Kirk tried to talk to him, but he was distant, so they decided to give him his space.

Driven by guilt, they also got Isaac a computer. He spent a lot of time typing away, and finally, one day they saw him smile again.

It took time but Isaac seemed to become his normal self again. He even managed to fulfil his Rambunctious Scamp aspiration just before his birthday, meaning he will be physically gifted later on in life.

When Isaac’s birthday came around, Maranda made him a cake herself.

Though the family did invite their old friend Bob to be the caterer for the birthday party, just in case.

Sadly the game culled most of Isaac’s childhood friends, so we had to make do with having these two random boys over.

Isaac aged up into a handsome teen. The look on Maranda’s face says it all – she couldn’t be more proud. Her newly aged son reminded her of a young Kirk, and she knew he was going to achieve great things in his life.

Little did Maranda know how much the whole Ruby business affected her son, and what his new trait turned out to be as a result. Isaac grew up to be a mean teenager. As soon as he had a bit of his birthday cake, the first thing Isaac proceeded to do was trolling the forums. Be afraid Internet, be very afraid.

I like the combination in this challenge: You roll the first two traits and the child and teen aspiration, and then you get to pick the third trait and aspiration when they become young adult (because each generation does have a set aspiration and building to complete, you can make it work that way in the end. Though obviously I’m stuck with mean Isaac forever lol

Oh that’s really cool. Yeah, mean Isaac lol
For Harmony’s seven kids I randomized them all at the same time, before she had Rosie and got all three traits and both kid, T/YA/A/E aspirations. I would just change the ones that are set by the generation rules. The good thing, I didn’t have to change any of the first traits, all kids got a bad one like they should have. I just changed Ash’s second and third so he’d have what cinderella has to. It works for me because I feel like I’d only pick the same one all the time.

Ooh, interesting! I’ve read the Disney challenge rules once, but I don’t quite fully remember what exactly is meant to happen in what generation, and I kind of don’t want to look so that I’ll be all the more surprised with what’s to come in your series!

I often randomise my sims’ traits, unless I go with what appears to make sense in terms of the sims’ character development and experiences. But if I do randomise them, I normally don’t go for mean or evil – I think Isaac is the first mean sim I’ve played.

Ugh. Mean is probably my least favorite trait…I’ve never been big on the ‘criminal’ side of Sims — being mean, making enemies, the public enemy aspiration, etc. Interesting combination, a mean father who wants a big, happy family (I think that’s the second generation goal, if I remember right)… Good luck with that one. xD

I never really play mean sims, though I did have an evil sim once. I was so mad that he rolled the mean trait – but it did end up working well with the story. And yup that’sthe aspiration! Hopefully he won’t be too mean to his kids! 😀

I’ve got a mean heir in my legacy. It’s a challenge. Still, when you think about the haunting story of Ruby’s burning–I could see how a trauma like that could turn a child into a mean teen. He is very handsome with his dad’s eyes.

I saw your comment about wanting to reroll Isaac’s mean trait, my Gen 2 heir originally rolled insane and I promised myself I’d make one gen heir be insane to make up for it, but I just couldn’t handle the Gen2 heir being insane so I rerolled it and got mean. I thought, ok, I’ll go with that!! Haha.